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‘We in the police got it wrong’: PCC Alan Billings on Hillsborough
Alan Billings cannot deny that with Orgreave, Hillsborough and Rotherham, the force he is paid to hold to account has some unique accounting to do.
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Earlier this year, after 112 years of memories, West Ham left their East London stadium for a new home in the former Olympic stadium in Stratford. But what about the community West Ham left behind?
Around 350 people have now reported alleged cases of child sex abuse connected to football clubs. The number has been rising by the day following the launch of an NSPCC hotline, which has received more than 860 calls in its first week of operation. Greater Manchester Police alone say they have received reports from 35…
I spoke to presenter and journalist Charlie Webster, who was abused by her running coach when she was 15 and from Norwich, Chief Constable Simon Bailey – who is the lead for child protection on the National Police Chiefs’ Council.
The paedophile football coach Barry Bennell is in hospital tonight after he was found unconscious in his hotel on Friday night.
Interviews with Paul Stewart, a former England footballer who came forward this week detailing his own allegations of the years of abuse he suffered as a young player, and Tom Perry, from the Mandate Now charity.
The scale is only just becoming clear: now the national inquiry into child sex abuse says it could start looking into allegations by former footballers that they were abused within the sport.
President-elect Trump’s Mexican Wall and the future relationship with Mexico – are one of the bigger issues facing his new administration. Hard on the heels of the shock election result there were more prosaic issues involving the two countries last night – a world cup qualifying football match.
Alan Billings cannot deny that with Orgreave, Hillsborough and Rotherham, the force he is paid to hold to account has some unique accounting to do.
Earlier today, a jury at Warrington coroner’s court decided by a majority verdict that the 96 victims of the Hillsborough stadium disaster had been killed unlawfully.
I don’t know a United fan who thinks he should stay. Frankly, almost anyone right now would do a better job than Louis Van Gaal.
After the biggest organised cheating scandal in the history of Scottish football, the former Rangers owners now face at last paying the British state the tax and NI they dodged for all those years.
HMRC is adamant there is money in there to be had and the court now says the state is owed what will be a substantial sum – barring any appeal process, of course.
All Big Sport seems hellbent on killing the occasion by deadening the atmosphere with Blastmusic whenever they can.
The politics behind the latest manoeuvring at the highest levels of football are fiendishly complicated. Keep ahead of developments with this handy guide.